Quotes of: Writing-style Keyword

Leonard Woolf: Do you think it's possible that bad writing actually attracts a higher incidence of error?

The Hours

Dwayne: [while Sheryl is crying he writes this on a piece of paper to Olive] Go Hug Mom

Little Miss Sunshine

[Dwayne looks around van; writes frantically on notepad... ] Frank: [reading notepad] "Where's Olive?"... Sheryl: Oh!

Little Miss Sunshine

[Asked to write his own epitaph] David St. Hubbins: Here lies David St. Hubbins... and why not?

This Is Spinal Tap

Ange Bassignano: [writes] "Revenge is pointless. Try to be happy and don't ruin your life for me."

A Very Long Engagement

It's such a stupid thing to sign a band and then demand a hit right away to instantly recoup the money. The point is, you have to do it by building your own following, and that is not necessarily done by writing instant hits.

Al Jourgensen

If I did things for the money, I'd have done adverts in the 1980s, when I was hot enough to be offered them, and 'Police Academy 6,' which I was asked to write.

Ben Elton

Keep it in tune with the times, but don't write with the specific purpose of trying to create a hit. If you're doing it strictly to make money, you're crazy. There are easier ways to make money.

Dorothy Fields

One way we gave small businesses more money to invest was by extending tax provisions on expensing. This allows businesses to immediately write off things like equipment, without being burdened by depreciation requirements.

Dennis Hastert

I write plays not to make money, but to stop myself from going mad. Because it's my way of making the world rational to me.

Edward Bond

I had my jazz club and I had enough money. So I didn't have to write for my living.

Haruki Murakami

Scientifically, information is a choice - a yes-or-no choice. In a broader sense, information is everything that informs our world - writing, painting, music, money.

James Gleick

My job is writing. I get paid to do it. When was the last time you heard someone challenge a doctor for making money off of cancer?

Joyce Maynard

It took many years to accept that fantasy is the fuel for my storytelling passion, and without that, I really am a hack, writing for money or approval rather than for the pure delight of storytelling.

Kelley Armstrong

Money's really - you know, song writing, yes, there's money to be made and things like that. But really, when you talk about the real money, you talk about touring. No question.

Kid Rock

The career of a writer is comparable to that of a woman of easy virtue. You write first for pleasure, later for the pleasure of others and finally for money.

Marcel Achard

I'm blessed to be living this dream of writing and singing, but that's not the real dream I had. The real dream was to make enough money to take care of all the pain and suffering that my mother has been through.

Missy Elliott

Philanthropy is not about giving money but about solving problems. While well-meaning, the idea of writing a check and calling it 'philanthropy' is extremely short-sighted and unfortunately, extremely pervasive.

Naveen Jain

When you write a book, you are asking someone to make an investment in their time and money. A column can come and go as the weeks pass, but a book needs to be timeless.

Regina Brett

The day the producers aren't minting money, or the fans are done with me and, most of all, I as a person get bored of acting, I will stop and pursue my other interests. There is a lot to do: painting, writing, direction.

Salman Khan

Well, yes, as I was a rather bad actor then and I wasn't making enough money, I thought, to make enough money to not make money as an actor, I'd better do some writing.

Val Guest